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GOP Dumpster Fire: Liars, Racists, Anti-LGBTQ+, Anti-Women ...

There’s an old saying about when someone shows you who they are, believe them; and when someone says something, openly and publicly, believe that, too, and not the spin machine that envelopes the liar afterwards.

Here are a few examples of liars, and morons, and weirdos showing us who they are …

Florida’s official tourism website quietly removed a landing page for the state’s LGBTQ-friendly travel destinations sometime in the past four months. The website—VisitFlorida.com—used to have an LGBTQ+ Travel section that no longer exists.

If Florida doesn’t want The Gays then perhaps The Gays need to get out of Florida or vote out these asshats trying to erase us.

Speaking of tourism of the ass-kissing type, with glitzy Mar-a-Lago fundraisers, stays at The Felon’s hotels, and flights on The Felon’s private jet, GOP candidates and political groups are on track to spend more on The Felon’s businesses this year than any year since 2016.

It’s clearly an attempt to stay on the racist, rapist, traitor, con artist, sexual predator’s good side … by that I mean the ass they kiss.

Maria Bartiromo from Fox Not News But Entertainment Because they Lie recently posted Xwitter:

“Friend of mine’s wife had to take her 16-year-old son to the DMV this week for a new license. Couldn’t get an online appointment(all full) so went in person and had to go to 3 DMVs to get something done. First DMV was in Weatherford. Had a massive line of immigrants getting licenses and had a tent and table outside the front door of the DMV registering them to vote!”

Funny then that Sgt. William Lockridge, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety, says Bartiromo’s statement was “simply false” or, in real speak, a lie. Contrary to Bartiromo’s friend’s wife’s cousin’s sister’s nephew’s doctor’s daughter’s teacher there is no office for the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles in Weatherford; people get licenses at a DPS Driver License office who had no such tent set up.

Maria Bartiromo is a liar who has repeated this lie three times on air without once trying to verify it with Texas officials.

Not even a week after telling the crowd at a North Carolina rally that Kamala Harris was copying him, The Felon’s campaign spokesperson released a video of him deboarding his plane using Harris’ campaign song, Beyoncé’s “Freedom.”

Beyoncé gave Harris permission to use the song from her album 2016 album Lemonade, at the end of last month. Since then Harris’ campaign has put it to use every chance it gets, from her first campaign ad to her dramatic entrance at the DNC Monday night.

Almost as soon as The Felon used her music, though, Beyoncé's people issued a cease and desist to The Felon.

Republican presidential nominee and certifiable moronic uneducated racist, The Felon, is questioning if Democrats know where Vice President Kamala Harris “came from.”

Birtherism 2.0.

Of course he’s used this racist bull shiz on former President Barack Obama and women of color in Congress.

When trying to debunk allegations of weirdness in your little cult, maybe you shouldn’t carry around cups of imaginary semen.

Seems like common sense, but supporters of JD Vance, outraged at Democrats for characterizing their favored candidate as a social misfit who fucks couches, have taken to honoring his sperm and have begun carrying JD Vance’s “Full Family Kit” AKA JD Jizz in an apparent nod to his fertility.

The MAGA movement’s embrace of JD’s Jizz seems to be a reference to Vance’s idiotic remarks about “childless cat ladies” and people who don’t have children.

Attorney Mike Davis, one of The Felon’s rumored attorney general candidates, is threatening lawsuits for anyone who calls the ex-president a convicted felon, writing on X:

“Dear Media and Other Democrat Operatives: Fair warning: Calling [him] a ‘convicted felon’ is defamatory. You may get sued.”

Now, I will have to use his name to make my point … sorry in advance: Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies making him a felon. In simpler terms:

Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. Donald Trump is a felon. 

Done.

Governor Kristi Noem’s administration recently turned down more than $70 million of federal funds from energy efficiency and environmental programs.

The Home Energy Rebates program would have provided the state with $69 million to give South Dakotans rebates for energy-efficient home retrofits and high-efficiency electric appliances resulting in estimated consumer cost savings of $9,027 per South Dakota home.

But the DogKiller said No because it was from Democrats.

Brown-Forman—makers of Jack Daniel’s, Chambord, Herradura, Korbel, Woodford Reserve, and Old Forester—has scrapped its diversity and inclusion policies and ended its participation in an LGBTQ corporate equality index.

An email sent out by Brown-Forman’s executive leadership team said it was making changes to its policies to “account for the ever-changing landscape” and the company removed its diversity and inclusion policies from its website.

I smell a boycott.

At a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania The Felon said Kamala Harris replacing Joe Biden “was a coup of a president. This was a coup.”

Since, again, this illiterate gelatinous mess is a moron, so I’ll explain it to him: a coup d'état, or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership.

Joe.Biden.Is.Still.The.President. He.Has.Not.Been.Unseated.

No coup.

Sofa Loren AKA JD Vance has evaded multiple questions about whether The Felon’s proposed “zero tolerance” policy on immigration would lead to family separation.

After telling NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that before imposing mass deportations, The Felon would need to “stop the bleeding” moderator Kristen Welker asked if The Felon’s plan would include family separation and Sofa,, er, JD said:

“I think that families are currently being separated. You’re certainly going to have to deport some people in this country.”

It’s like this: when they dodge a question it’s because they’re lying. Of course they’re going to separate families.

Former Michigan Republican Party co-chair Meshawn Maddock was called out over the weekend for using a homophobic slur to describe an openly gay political opponent, Jason Morgan, Michigan Democratic Party Vice Chair and is a member of the Michigan DNC, after Jason posted this to Xwitter:

"Michigan Congressional delegation in the House."

And Maddock replied:

“Fags and hags."

Morgan responded to the comment :

"Former [Michigan Republican Party] Chair and advisor to [The Felon]’s 2024 campaign, just called me a fag. As a proud gay man who loves his husband, these hateful taunts don’t undermine my Pride, but to countless LGBTQ young people across the USA, hateful rhetoric can lead to depression and suicide. On behalf of those LGBTQ Kids … Let’s stand up to bullies! Contribute to keep me and other LGBTQ leaders in office, no matter how triggered Meshawn gets."

Meshawn Maddock has yet to respond or apologize because she’s a bigot.

Hulk Hogan—real name Terry Bollea—wrestler, at an event in Ohio to promote his new Real American Beer asked a crowd of supporters if he should “body-slam” Kamala Harris.

Battering women; always good for a joke if you’re Republican. But then he takes it a step further, playing off The Felon’s inherent racism, asking the crowd:

“Is Kamala a chameleon? Is she Indian?”

The he raised his left hand and said:

“How.”

Now, because he looks like a racist abuser, Terry Bollea is blaming his comments on one too many beers when in reality—even though wrestling is fake—it was one too many folding chairs to the head.

At a Felon Rally last week in Arizona certified loon Kari Lake spoke just before The Felon took the stage rambling on about how the country needed to be saved from a “thousand years of darkness” and that The Felon is “the only person who can lead us out of this nightmare and restore the American dream.”

The best part is that, as she spoke, a teleprompter posted a message to Lake from The Felon campaign:

“Please get off stage.”

And when The Felon waddled onstage he said:

“I was going to say, come on, Kari, speak, but she just spoke for half an hour. What the hell.”

I’ve a message for you both: Please get off the stage.

Once again Sofa Loren, AKA Sen. JD Vance, tried to mansplain what The Felon says; This time Vance says The Felon would veto a federal abortion ban if a bill were to be passed by Congress.

Really, Sofa? I mean, the man Made it a point of telling people if he was elected he’d appoint pro-Life justices to the court and then he did that; and then when the court overturned Roe he said, and I’ll paraphrase: “I did that!”

And you want us to believe that because he says he’d veto an abortion ban he will? You really are as stupid as you look.

Bryant Rosado was introduced as an undecided voter during a CNN segment following Kamala Harris’ speech at the Democratic National Convention gave it a “C” while the other seven panelists rated it either an “A” or a “B”.

Rosado confirmed he wasn’t ready to vote for Kamala Harris but moments later said he was pro-The Felon. The Felon’s campaign quickly seized upon Rosado’s comments, using them as an attack on Kamala Harris but then it was revealed that ::::gasp::: Bryant Rosado was a MAGAt liar who posts pro-Felon and pro-MAGAt shiz all over social media.

Oklahoma’s Bixby school district has lots to be proud of: a state-of-the-art new high school set to open by 2025, a new ninth grade gymnasium and plans for a $12 million upgrade to a football complex that already rivals that of many small colleges.

But what the district does not have, and will not have, as students returned last week is a Bible in every classroom—despite a statewide mandate from Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s education chief to incorporate Bible lessons and promises of repercussions for those that don’t comply.

Bixby Superintendent Rob Miller said:

“If there is no curricular standard that ties with that particular classroom, what would be the purpose of a Bible if not for pure indoctrination?”

Oklahoma schools are taking a stand.

And even the state GOP has threatened to impeach Walters for refusing to account for his spending, which has included multiple out of state trips to appear at Christian nationalist and pro-Trump events.

Fox News unceremoniously ended an interview with The Felon while he was in mid-rant following the DNC.

He had called into the network after his rival Kamala Harris’ acceptance speech, and after about 10 minutes of studiously listening to his complaints and exclamations, the hosts wrapped things up rather abruptly.

Even Fox is tired of his nonsense.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has raised $540 million since it launched last month, including a surge bolstered by the DNC, a total that amounts to “a record for any campaign in history.”

The campaign raised $82 million during the convention last week, with the best hour coming after Harris’ acceptance speech.

A third of the week’s donations were from first-time contributors and two-thirds of the first-time donors were women.

Remember, this is a party that promises but never delivers, a party of demented old men, and mascara-wearing RuPaul wannabes who hate women, the  LGBTQ+ community, immigrants, education and members of our military.

We don't need that so ...

Room 8

Y’all know I’m an Old Cat Lady but here’s a Cat Tail—see what I did there—that I had never heard before, and it’s pretty cool.

One school day in 1952 a large but rather thin, shorthaired, grey-striped tabby wandered into a sixth-grade classroom of the Elysian Heights Elementary School  in Echo Park, where he jumped up onto the desks and was welcomed by the children.

Now, the teacher wasn't so sure about allowing a cat in a classroom, especially what seemed to be a stray, but when the kids pointed out how skinny he was she allowed them to give him some milk. After recess, when they returned to their room, the cat was asleep on a desk, and some of the children's lunchboxes had been opened and the contents scattered around!

Clearly the cat was hungry and making himself at home. So much so that he followed the kids into the lunchroom where they shared their food with him. He then followed them back to class and fell asleep while they continued their studies, and when he awoke, he went out to the playground and left through the gate. They weren't expecting to see him again.

But the next morning he was back, following the kids into their classroom, and as time went by this became his regular routine … attending class with the kids and then leaving as the day ended. Over the teacher’s objections, the cat was adopted by the students and they decided to name him Room 8.

That was the classroom he liked to frequent so 'Room 8' he became, and he eventually became an unofficial school mascot and could be found patrolling the halls or sleeping on a desk. He still went to lunch with the students and though they weren't supposed to feed him, they did, and he became quite plump.

A student from the sixth grade was appointed 'cat feeder' each year, regarded as a very important position in the school, and Room 8's formal feeding took place in the teachers' room, so the cat feeder was privileged. The school did have one hard and fast rule: 'Don't bother the cat'. If he interfered too much with classroom activities, he would be gently relocated by a 'cat remover'.

No one knew where Room 8 went at night or during school holidays, or even over the course of the summer, though most believed he slept in the nearby hills. One teacher, who was a friend and supporter of Room 8 discovered that he'd been born in 1947, making him about 5 when he first came to the school, and that he was a neighborhood animal who had been ill treated at his home. It seems likely that Room 8 just moved out and into the school, a second home; no one knew where he spent weekends, school holidays and summers, though every September Room 8 would be back, right on schedule, for the start of the new school year.

Soon the local media picked up the story as Room 8's fame had spread beyond Echo Park, and even beyond Los Angeles. He made personal appearances at local cat shows and community groups and was made an honorary member of various organizations. In late 1962 Look magazine ran a three-page spread on him; in 1964 Room 8's pawprints were embedded in wet cement in front of the school where they still exist today; in 1966, his ‘biography’ and there was an article about him the following year in a national publication for elementary-school pupils; and in 1968 he was featured in part of a television documentary. Each year he joined the sixth-grade children for their class photograph, and the honor of holding him went to that year's cat feeder.

At the height of his fame Room 8 was receiving fan mail, sometimes 100 letters a day and in total approximately 10,000 letters were received in his lifetime, from nearly every state and several foreign countries. The fifth- and sixth-grade students became 'cat secretaries', answering each piece of mail by hand and signing it with a rubber-stamp pawprint.

As Room 8 aged, there were some health issues; he began losing some teeth; he was injured in a cat fight in 1963, and then a year later Room 8 contracted pneumonia and nearly died. As he aged he began to accept hospitality from friends and neighbors near the school at night and when school was not in session.

In 1968 a summer school was held at Elysian Heights for the first time for some years and Room 8 attended faithfully every day until he became very ill and had to be taken to the hospital. He died on August 13, 1968, of kidney failure, as happens so often with older cats. He was 21, and in his lifetime had become an important part of the school and the community at large.

Room 8 was given a three-column obituary with accompanying photo in the Los Angeles Times, and his passing was noted by various other publications, including the Christian Science Monitor. He was buried at the Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park at Calabasas, with the Nakano family—who’d looked after him at night and on school breaks—laying a wreath of roses and carnations on his grave because he used to love sniffing the flowers in their garden. Students raised money to buy a gravestone for Room 8 and it can still be seen today.

In 1972 former students of the school created the Room 8 Memorial Cat Foundation, a no-kill shelter supported by donations that still exists today. And today, half a century after Room 8 passed, the Elysian Heights School still remembers him with affection and maintains several mementoes of him, including a painting that hangs in the school office, and two paintings in the hall next to a larger version of his memorial medallion. Room 8 is front and center in a mosaic mural in the library, and another mural on the side of the auditorium, and his likeness painted on the outside of a classroom building. The school proudly announces its famous feline with foot-high letters on Echo Park Avenue at its junction with Baxter Street: 'Elysian Heights School. Home of Room 8. School Cat 1952-1968'. And each year, first- and second-grade pupils have the book about Room 8 read to them by their teachers.

What a wonderful way to honor and remember him and all he gave to that school and those students over the sixteen years he “went” there and in the years since.

Purr'n'Fur

This Bitch: JessicaTillmann

Down there in Florida, where insanity runs rampant and Hate is the law, Seminole County Public Schools is offering to reprint the 2023 Lyman High School yearbook in order to remove two pages of LGBTQ+ content because some parents, well, to be fair, one hate-filled parent, is upset about it.

Jessica Tillmannn, chapter chair of the Seminole County Moms for Liberty—meaning Liberty for her group of bigots and homophobes, but not for everyone—says she’s concerned about the definitions in the yearbook because she thinks they are teaching children about sex outside the state-approved standards that parents can choose to opt their children out of:

“They shouldn’t have any sexual definitions in a yearbook. This is a yearbook that goes to every student as young as 14.”

I got news for you Jessica, fourteen-year-olds know about LGBTQ+ people, and probably even have friends who are gay and bisexual and trans and genderfluid, so your homophobia is kind of ridiculous, misplaced and a little too late.

But what really has Jessica’s Spanx twisted? It’s the fact that the LGBTQ+ section in the yearbook includes photos of member of the student’s Gay-Straight Alliance, definitions of LGBTQ+ terms, a passage on the evolution of pronouns and a profile of a student who advocates for the LGBTQ+ community.

How terrifying.

And what kind of terms do they explain? How about genderfluid, defined as “a gender identity that changes with time and/or a given situation. This is opposed to a fixed gender identity.” The yearbook also defines aromantic as “someone who experiences little to no romantic attraction. Many aromantics still feel sexual attraction.”

Danielle Pomeranz, Lyman High School’s faculty yearbook adviser, disagrees with the district’s offer to scrub LGBTQ+ content since the book features all aspects of the school’s diverse student body, including Latinos in Action, Black History Month and even the Dungeons & Dragons Club and defended the LGBTQ+ section:

“They are definitions. They are not teaching anything about sex at all. … Nobody is teaching anybody about sex acts. It is ridiculous.”

And while the principal approved the yearbook’s content it is under scrutiny because the Florida Department of Education got involved when Jessica Tillmann had her Hissy Hate Fit and decided only her opinion counts; wrong, again, Jessica.

If fact, Jessica Tillmann is so thrilled it be a bigot and homophobe that she is also requesting that Danielle Pomeranz  and the school be fired. Sadly, Danielle Pomeranz resigned from her job a couple of weeks ago in part because of Florida’s political climate and a lack of support from Seminole County’s school leadership, so there’s one less teacher to care about all students in Florida.

Still, I have a suggestion for Jessica Tillmann: shut the fuck up. If you don’t like LGBTQ+ content in a  yearbook, get yourself a pair of scissors and cut the pages out of the book, but why believe your opinion should rule over all opinions?

On the upside, as of now, no one had requested a reprinted yearbook, not even Jessica Tillmann.

I guess she wanted her Fifteen Minutes of fame as a bigot and homophobe, and I hope she sits all alone in her hate rots there.

As for the LGBTQ+ community, we need to speak up, loudly, and condemn this kind of hate. Staying silent is not an option; use your voice, use your vote. What happens to one of us, happens to us all.

Orlando Sentinel

After Uvalde ...

In the wake of the latest—cuz it won’t be the last—mass shooting, Texas Governor, and REPUBLICAN, Greg Abbott said he expects new laws to be enacted in response the Robb Elementary School shooting, and added:

“Do we expect any laws to come out of this devastating crime? The answer is yes. Absolutely yes.”

When asked about calling a special session for the legislature Abbott made no move on that. He is resistant to measures targeting background checks on guns and new laws around buying rifles:

“Anyone who suggests we should focus on background checks instead of mental health, I suggest to you it is mistaken.”

REPUBLICAN Governor Greg Abbott has cut $200,000,000.00 from departments that deal with mental health.

He has children’s blood on his hands.

 

We all know the NRA held one of their terror-paloozas in the wake of the shooting in Uvalde, but did you know that this vile group, headed by murderer Wayne LaPierre, as part of its ongoing “Banned Guns Giveaway,” the NRA raffled off a Daniel Defense DDM4 V7 rifle as 1,000 rounds of ammunition—the same gun used to slaughter children at Robb Elementary.

A Domestic Terror Group.

 

GOP Representative Matt Gaetz tried to answer the question why anyone not serving in the military would have a need for an AR-15 capable of quickly spewing 300 bullets and he replied:

“Target sport. Self-defense. Hog hunting. Just to name a few…”

Keep in mind that one person who was a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida was David Hogg, a gun activist.

Matt Gaetz is a pig.

 

New York Congressman, and REPUBLICAN, Chris Jacobs, a former gun advocate and supporter of the NRA, made a surprising about-face last week becoming perhaps the first congressional Republican to call for an assault weapons ban in the wake of the recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas.

In addition to saying he would vote for a Democratic bill banning assault weapons, he also said he would support raising the age on some gun purchases to 21, limiting the capacity of magazines and banning the sale of military-style body armor to civilians.

Perhaps the tide is turning … ?

 

Lastly, President Biden was greeted warmly greeted when he visited Uvalde over the weekend, while Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbott was loudly booed when he approached the memorial at Robb Elementary:

“Shame on you, Abbott!” 

“Please, Governor, help Uvalde County! We need change! Our children don’t deserve this.”

“Our children are under constant attack in this community. We need help.”

Sadly, we already know where Abbott stands, so change won’t likely be coming at a state level, unless the people of Texas vote him out of office.

Vote every single politician who has blocked gun control legislation, who takes blood money from the NRA, who suggests arming teachers, giving students ballistic blankets, or locking all the doors in schools, as a solution to mass shootings.

CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE.

A Gaggle of Qidiots

Arkansas’ Q Governor, Asa Hutchinson, just signed new legislation that allows doctors and other health care workers to refuse to perform certain services if they have “conscience-based objections.”

That’s GQP lingo for Don’t Help The Gays.

Senate Bill 289—The Medical Ethics and Diversity Act—is a retread of an earlier Hate Bill that was presented in the 2017 legislative session. Ethics? Diversity? Not so much.

But I guess in Arkansas if you first can’t pass a Hate Bill, try, try again.

There’s a proposal looming in North Dakota to shield schools and teachers from lawsuits arising from those schools and teachers posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

In public schools.

And one asshat, GQP state Senator Janne Myrdal, even listed a litany of social ills, including sex trafficking, child sex abuse and crowded jails, that she says could be remedied with displays of the Ten Commandments in North Dakota schools.

Honey, if that worked at all, posting your list of rules that a great many Christians do not follow in your churches and religious schools would have ended those social ills years ago.

Try a little something called Separation of Church and State. And keep your religious idiocy out of public schools.

Senator Steve Daines [Q-MT] is quite the idiot.

During  a visit to the Mexican border with other Senate Q’s, to spew the lie about a crisis, he lamented the loss of the meth trade from Montanans to Mexicans:

“Twenty years ago in Montana, meth was homemade. It was homegrown. And you had purity levels less than 30%. Today the meth that is getting into Montana is Mexican cartel.”

Seriously. He’s genuinely upset that Montana’s meth trade is losing business to Mexican cartels.

You cannot get much more asshatted than Steve Daines.

Even some of his own Party members couldn’t hide their reactions to Daines’ idiocy. Fellow Senator Mike Lee [Q-UT] couldn’t stop smiling as Daines whined about the death of meth in Montana, and even began looking at the ground to hide his smile.

Steve Daines. Asshat.

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